It’s to hard to mention ‘genius’ and ‘SC’ in the same sentence without refering
to hjh directly… he basically invented the term.
He is the in-house & on-call professor here, an all-time legend of SC’s development (class source, reference, and lower level), and beyond a shadow of a doubt, a guru of all things SC.
He’s also the sole author of the entire ddw Quarks extension library.
All of this is done by purely by choice… he has since stepped down (all gratitude and respect, no ends) from his role as lead developer several months ago… around the same time that we lost a lead developer from Ableton, who’s no longer with us.
Currently we have two long time and well experienced contributors currently turning legends who’ve recently undertaken their roles as executives of the dev team… see 3.12 Final Release thread.
SC 3.12 is here after 3.4, 3.6.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.3, etc… we’re still improving on SC3, we haven’t fully realized what SC4 will look like yet… and it’s A LOT of work too.
The best thing you can do as a new user is not to sweat it, enjoy the language as you will… it is extremely helpful if you log issues on GitHub, as you may come across them, and that goes for pretty much everyone, including myself… there’s a fill-in template for SV version, OS, code, post error.
This is all entirely open-source… the original creator is no longer involved at this point.
Everyone is free to do what they want and no one is obligated to do anything they don’t care to… we’re all still here because we want to be here… and because SC is such an incredibly powerful & expressive language.